Chatroulette, WebM, the World Cup and Apple Tv were only some of the topics that interested our readers the most in 2010. Our Top 10 also includes stories about Flash on Android, the YouTube lawsuit, the Winter Olympics and – don’t blush – porn on the iPad.

2010 marked the year when the NewTeeVee crew started its first-ever own weekly web series called Cord Cutters – but we also recorded a whole bunch of interviews, product reviews and comparisons. Check out some of the highlights of our original video content in this Top 10 list.

Hulu today announced a $2 price cut on its for-pay subscription service, Hulu Plus, reducing the price to $7.99, hoping it will goose revenues further in 2011. In this video chat from NTV Live, CEO Jason Kilar talks about company’s strategy, IPO and Hulu Plus.

Of course we were excited about all the amazing news that was announced at our NewTeeVee Live conference yesterday, but we weren’t the only ones that took notice — news organizations like the Associated Press, USA Today, TechCrunch, Reuters and others reported breaking news from our show.

Not even the San Francisco fire department can stop us: NewTeeVee Live 2010 started off with a mandatory building evacuation, but ended up to be a fast-paced event highlighting Hulu’s success, Google TV’s vision, the challenges of designing TV-compatible interfaces and the power of conversations.

The amount of live video watched online grew more than 600 percent over the past year. At GigaOM’s NewTeeVee Live conference, executives from livestream providers UStream, LiveStream and Justin.tv, plus the head of YouTube’s new livestream product, gave their take on what’s driving that growth.

What’s next for BitTorrent, a company that initially tried to establish a peer-to-peer-based download store for mainstream Hollywood, then aimed to help publishers distribute bits more effectively? Co-founder and chief scientist Bram Cohen explained at NewTeeVee Live that the company is focusing its efforts on livestreaming.

More than 35 hours are uploaded to YouTube every minute, Google’s Hunter Walk announced at NewTeeVee Live today. But the conversation focused on YouTube’s increasing multi-platform approach to content distribution, with a focus moving, in Walk’s words, “from a device-centric world to a user-centered world.”

Most people just want to watch TV. They want it to be simple, and it should “just work.” Speaking today at GigaOM’s NewTeeVee Live conference, Peter Merholz, the president of user experience design firm Adaptive Path, explained, “People want the same media experience they’ve always had.”

Televisions have been in homes for decades but only in the last three years has Samsung rolled out broadband connected TV, so Olivier Manuel, director of content at Samsung Electronics America says his company has to straddle the line between early adopters and a wider audience.

The fight for the TV audience doesn’t have to be a face off between the walled gardens of cable and satellite companies and new connected devices, said Buddy Snow, senior director of solutions marketing for Motorola Mobility’s broadband home solutions at NewTeeVee Live conference. He said the two can co-exist and create a winning proposition for consumers.

Making online video content is one thing. Making money from it is quite another, and Blip.tv can be credited with coming about as close as anyone to helping content producers monetize their videos. CEO Mike Hudack told NewTeeVee Live attendees today how his company helps producers.

The creators of Lost and Heroes told the NewTeeVee Live conference that now is one of the most exciting times to be a storyteller, because the web — along with social networks and mobile devices — allow writers to take their stories in new directions.

Social media and new online services have changed the way folks can distribute their own films, and Oren Jacob explained today at the NewTeeVee Live event how he spends much of his evenings trying to distribute his film about competitive grocery bagging.

No, you don’t have to turn off Flash to save battery life of your MacBook Air, said Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch at NewTeeVee Live today. Lynch pointed out that Adobe has been doing a lot to optimize battery life and video playback on all platforms.

Although television has become more fragmented thanks to the web, millions of people still tune in for certain shows. The real-time conversation that Twitter allows makes it a perfect companion for those events, staffer Robin Sloan told attendees at GigaOM’s NewTeeVee Live conference this morning.

With the rise of cord-cutting, streaming TV, and the app-ification of TV, the online video industry is changing dramatically. That’s why the theme of our fourth annual NewTeeVee Live event is Television Reinvented. Watch the livestream and follow the live blog here, starting at 8:15 am PT.

Next Wednesday, executives from Hulu, Adobe, YouTube, Google TV, Fox and others will talk about how the next wave of video innovation at NewTeeVee Live. Please join us for a day of discussion on how new technologies will disrupt today’s current video distribution and monetization models.

What’s at stake for Google, Hulu, Apple and Amazon? NewTeeVee Live brings together the most influential players who are making moves that will forever change where, when, and how we watch TV. This event is selling out – claim your seat now!

What’s at stake for Google, Hulu, Apple and Amazon? NewTeeVee Live brings together the most influential players who are making moves that will forever change where, when, and how we watch TV. This event is selling out – claim your seat now!

On Nov. 10th in San Francisco we are going to gather some of the biggest names in television and 500 members of our audience to debate how the world of online television will hit prime-time this year. Want to tune in to the TV revolution?

We’re thrilled to announce Hulu CEO Jason Kilar as keynote speaker at this year’s NewTeeVee Live, where he will lead our discussion on the future of online video and the business models that will enable it to thrive.

Lost and Heroes Emmy® Award Winners Carlton Cuse and Tim Kring join the NewTeeVee Live line-up for a discussion about the evolution of storytelling, moderated by cross media expert and Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Interactive Media Peer Group Executive Committee member, Brian Seth Hurst.

What’s the next big thing in online video? Are consumers ready to cut the cord? How will the growing proliferation of tablet and other mobile device influence video distribution? These are just some of the topics we will be discussing at this year’s NewTeeVee Live.

What, another redesign? I know what you’re thinking. It has only been a few months since we completely revamped NewTeeVee’s web site – and now we are changing it all over again? Well, this isn’t as much of a redesign than a GigaOm family reunion.

NewTeeVee relaunched last night as part of the GigaOM network-wide redesign that started in November of 2009. It’s the second redesign since NewTeeVee started more than three years ago, and it’s our most ambitious one yet.

The revolution has not been televised. Well not recently, anyway. Oldteevee has given way to NewTeeVee, and suddenly we have a barrage of web video shows, some of them great, some awful, and the rest somewhere in between. So to help you find what you want to watch, may I present: NewTeeVee Station. Continue Reading